After the match ended, Yusuke Urameshi and the others happily made their way through the contestants' passage, intending to head home.
"Man, I really thought we were done for today. Looks like we still had to rely on Kurama."
By now, Kuwanbara and Makoto seemed to have completely forgotten his previous miserable experience. He laughed heartily as he spoke.
"At this rate, winning the championship might not even be a problem!"
"Hahahaha, the championship prize is fifty million dollars! Fifty million! How are we going to spend it?"
Yusuke Urameshi laughed as well, looking completely carried away by thoughts of how to spend the prize money. But at that moment, Kurama and Hiei suddenly stopped and stared ahead.
"What's wrong, Kurama? Hiei?"
Noticing something was off with their companions, Yusuke Urameshi and Kuwanbara and Makoto stopped as well. They looked forward and saw a black-haired woman in sportswear and a mask standing before them.
"Masked X!"
Yusuke Urameshi's expression immediately changed when he saw the masked girl. He stared at her seriously.
Yet as the two sides faced each other, Masked X turned her head and looked at Hiei.
"Hiei, a demon world thief born in the Land of Ice. He was abandoned as a cursed child and grew up in the forests of the demon world. In order to find his younger sister and the Ice Tear Stone he lost in battle, he sought out Shigure, the Evil Eye surgeon of the demon world, and had an Evil Eye capable of searching implanted in himself. Shigure agreed, but on one condition: even if Hiei found his sister, he was forbidden from acknowledging her."
"Huh?"
Hearing Masked X reveal all that, the three of them looked at Hiei in surprise. Kuwanbara and Makoto, in particular, stared at him in disbelief.